Human factors: enhancing pilot performance

Drawing upon the latest scientific research, aviation safety studies, and accident findings, Human Factors: Enhancing Pilot Performance thoroughly explores the nature of these human limitations and how they affect flight. Most importantly, this book provides best-practice countermeasures designed to help pilots minimize their influence on their flight performance.

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Intro -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Introduction -- PART I -- The Human in the Cockpit -- 1. Is flying safe? (The Aviation Record) -- 2. To err is human. (Flight Crew Error) -- 3. What's a human factor? (Aviation Human Factors) -- PART II -- Physiological Aspect of Flight Crew Performance -- 4. How high can I fly? (Hypoxia and Hyperventilation) -- 5. You must pass that gas-either fore or aft. (Trapped and Evolved Gases) -- 6. I can't see a thing! (Vision) -- 7. Say again? (Hearing and Noise)

8. Do you want to be an aerobatic pilot? (Accelerations in Flight) -- 9. Which way is up? (Spatial Disorientation) -- 10. Why am I so tired? (Fatigue on the Flight Deck) -- 11. Am I fit to fly? (Health Maintenance and Lifestyle) -- PART III -- Psychological Aspects of Flight Crew Performance -- 12. Seeing is deceiving. (Visual Perception) -- 13. Did you say "gear up" or "cheer up"? (Auditory Perception) -- 14. Why can't you just pay attention? (Attention, Vigilance, and Monitoring) -- 15. What's it doing now? (Flight Deck Design and Automation) -- 16. Don't forget to remember. (Memory)

17. Decisions, decisions, decisions. (Decision Ma…